Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age (Midland Giant)
The ideal woman of the Victorian era was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption, and worship of the family hearth—with marriage and procreation being a woman's only function. Suffer and Be Still is a collection of ten lively essays which document the feminine stereotypes that...
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The ideal woman of the Victorian era was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption, and worship of the family hearth—with marriage and procreation being a woman's only function. Suffer and Be Still is a collection of ten lively essays which document the feminine stereotypes that Victorian women fought against, but only partially defeated.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780253201683 (0253201683)
Publish date: September 1st 1973
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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